[Asterisk-Users] Incoming calls via CAPI and AVM Fritz Card

[Armin Schindler]

On Wed, 26 Oct 2005, Esteban Guana-Jarrin wrote:
> Can anyone please provide some help. I have installed an AVM fritz card on an
> asterisk box (asterisk at home version 1.5). I have installed the card driver and
> chan_capi-cm-0.6. According to the installations guide I can now see that the
> CAPI channel in asterisk is up,
> 
> *CLI> capi info
> Contr1: 2 B channels total, 2 B channels free.
> 
> I set up a trunk and the dialstring includes the following,
> 
> CAPI/g1/0299546476:b${EXTEN},30,r
> 
> My capi.conf is,
> 
> [general]
> nationalprefix=0
> internationalprefix=00
> rxgain=0.8
> txgain=0.8
> ;ulaw=yes        ;set this, if you live in u-law world instead of a-law
> 
> ; interface sections ...
> 
> [ISDN1]          ;this example interface gets name 'ISDN1' and may be any
>                 ;name not starting with 'g' or 'contr'.
> ;ntmode=yes      ;if isdn card operates in nt mode, set this to yes
> isdnmode=msn     ;'MSN' (point-to-multipoint) or 'DID' (direct inward dial)
>                 ;when using NT-mode, ptp should be set in any case
> incomingmsn=*    ;allow incoming calls to this list of MSNs/DIDs, * == any
> ; controller=0    ;ISDN4BSD default
> ; controller=7    ;ISDN4BSD USB default
> controller=1     ;capi controller number to use
> group=1          ;dialout group
> ;prefix=0        ;set a prefix to calling number on incoming calls
> softdtmf=on      ;enable/disable software dtmf detection, recommended for AVM
> cards
> relaxdtmf=on     ;in addition to softdtmf, you can use relaxed dtmf detection
> accountcode=     ;Asterisk accountcode to use in CDRs
> context=from-trunk
> ;context=capi-in  ;context for incoming calls
> holdtype=hold    ;when Asterisk puts the call on hold, ISDN HOLD will be used.
> If
>                 ;set to 'local' (default value), no hold is done and Asterisk
> may
>                 ;play MOH.
> ;immediate=yes   ;immediate start of pbx with extension 's' if no digits were
>                 ;received on incoming call (no destination number yet)
> ; echosquelch=1   ;_VERY_PRIMITIVE_ echo suppression
> ; echocancel=yes  ;EICON DIVA SERVER (CAPI) echo cancelation
>                 ;(possible values: 'no', 'yes', 'force', 'g164', 'g165')
> echocancelold=yes;use facility selector 6 instead of correct 8 (necessary for
> older eicon drivers)
> ; echotail=64     ;echo cancel tail setting
> ; bridge=yes      ;native bridging (CAPI line interconnect) if available
> ; callgroup=1     ;Asterisk call group
> ; deflect=1234567 ;deflect incoming calls to 1234567 if all B channels are 
> busy
> devices=2        ;number of concurrent calls on this controller
> ;(2 makes sense for single BRI, 30 for PRI)
> 
> I can't see that a number is assigned to msn, but I read somewhere on this
> list that for this latest version of chan_capi this is not required.

With 'incomingmsn=*' chan_capi will signal all incoming calls to Asterisk. 
Rules in extensions.conf then decide what to do with the calls.
For outgoing calls, you need to set the correct MSN as callerid.
 
> I connected the asterisk box to the ISDN line, which belongs to a Hunt group
> with number as shown in the dialstring and when ringing that number from an
> external line I do not get any tone and asterisk does not log any indications
> of incoming calls via the CAPI channel
> 
> Can anyone please shed some light on what do I need to do in order to be able
> to receive calls via this setup.

What exactly is your problem?

Armin
 
> Thanks in advance,
> 
> PolAUs
> 
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